Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-01-12
EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE.
Warning Hotel and Restaurant Custom-
ers I'm Regard 70 Food Adulteratlon.

ers I'm Regard to Food Adulteration.
The legislatures of several eastern
states, where not enough genuine COW
butter is made to supply the people on
Thanksgiving and Christmas have passed
laws requiring hotel and restaurant pro-
priesors to conspicuously pest In their
dining rooms notices setting forth that
oleorlargarine is served on the table in
the place of butter, whenever any substi-
tute for it is used. There seems to be no
good reason for withholding from the
patrons of these hotels and restaurants
information about the frauds that are
practiced in other kinds of foods, as well
as in drinks and condiments that are
placed ON the same table with substitutes
for butter. Equal and exact justice
would seem to demand that customers be
apprised of the fact that the cheese served
Is composed of the curd of SKINNED or
separated milk and cotton seed oil, lard or
neutral fat, and it is colored with annotto,
They should also be made aware of the
fact that the pure Vermont maple
sugar is made from West India sugar
leans molasses that the strained
honey is compounded of fluid
glucose, glyccriae and fiavoring ex.
tract; that the buckwheat cakes are
made of wheat middlings and corn meal;
that the genuine white vinegar is
manufactured from corn sugar, malt ex-
tract, or high wines; that the pickles are
'sgreened' with verdigris; that the ice
cream is compounded of SKINNED milk
and corn starch and favored with 'sfruit
extracts obtained by skillfuliy COM
bining various oils and ethers; that the
ssFrench sardines' are baby herrings,
caught ON the coast Of Maine and pre-
served in cotton seed oil; that the mus
tard is adultorated with corn meal, and
the spices with finely ground spent tan
bark.
Each coffee cup should contain q
legend which informs the person who
takes it to his lips that the beverage it
contains is an infusion of chicory, parched
barley or Canadian peas, which passed
the custom house free of duty on the
representation that they were to be used
for seed. Each bill Of fare should set
forth in years and decades tho ages of
the spring chickens that are served, or
give the number of settings Of eggs
that they Matched before they became too
old to be scrviceable in multiplying their
species. All the jelly dishes should have
card attached to them setting forth the
fact that their contents are mainly COM
posed of fish glue, colored with dye stuifs
AMI favored with various drug store
preparations.
Il the practice of adorning the walls
and tables of hotels, restaurants and
boarding houses in the way suggested
should become general, or he required by
law, the proprietors would find their
business much more profitable than it is
at present. Their patrons would cat but
little, and that little would be of the
plainest sorts of food. Few would call
for chicken pie, ask for the second cup of
coffee, or desire to have their ice cream
dish replenis,led. Salt, which is very
cheap, would be almost the only condi-
ment used with food. The caster and
jelly glasses could still be used for orna-
menting the table, but they would never
require to be refilled. They would serve
the same purpose that the vessels of col
ored liquids do that are displayed in the
windows Of drug stores. It is likely that
the health of people who eat at public
tables would be greatly improved by car
rying out the plan proposed. They would
eat corned beef and cabbage, plain roast
beef and boiled potatoes, and decline all
drinks but cold water. Living on this
simple diet they would be well and
happy Chicago Times.